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FILM SCORES;Speaking Of Credentials

Published: December 24, 1995

To the Editor:

In his essay on film scores, Edward Rothstein calls Carl Dreyer's "Passion of Joan of Arc" a "little known" movie ["Film Music Returns to Its Roots," Nov. 19]. Yet this 1928 silent production finished fourth in the voting for "the best film of all time" at the World's Fair in Brussels in 1958; it has appeared on the "Sight and Sound" polls in 1952, 1972 and 1992 as one of the 10 films most favored by critics and directors around the world. And last month the Vatican marked the 100th anniversary of cinema by citing it as one of 45 films having "special artistic and religious merit."